April 22, 2010
MTC: A Fresh View of Cold-War America
Ron Radosh
Teaching in the universities about the so-called McCarthy era has become an area most susceptible to politically correct and one-sided views of what the period was all about. One historian who strenuo......
April 8, 2010
MTC: On Pigeons, Pells and Student Incentives
Jackson Toby
Jackson Toby, professor emeritus of sociology at Rutgers and author of the new book, The Lowering of Higher Education in America, delivered this speech yesterday (April 7) at a luncheon in New York C......
January 28, 2010
MTC: America the Awful---Howard Zinn's History
Ron Radosh
</> Howard Zinn's death yesterday affords us the opportunity to evaluate the remarkable influence he has had on the American public's understanding of our nation's past. His book A People's His......
November 4, 2009
MTC: Dumbing Down Foreign Language Instruction
Charlotte Allen
A recent report from Britain concludes that U.K. universities are "dumbing down" their requirements for majoring in foreign language in order to attract more undergraduate students. "The most widely-r......
October 13, 2009
MTC: The Problem With Student Engagement
Donald A. Downs
"Student engagement" is a movement and a cause that has made steady progress on our campuses. According to Inside Higher Education, it has reached a "critical mass" of participants, though many in the......
September 18, 2009
MTC: Massad Got Tenure (Don't Tell Anyone)
Judith Miller
Fourteen Columbia professors are protesting the university's apparent decision to award tenure to Joseph A. Massad, a controversial anti-Israel professor of Arab studies. The professors are from the......
June 25, 2008
MTC: Moderating The AAUP And MLA?
Anthony Paletta
At its annual meeting, the American Association of University Professors declined to vote to criticize Israel, yet voted to condemn Iran. In December, the MLA rejected a statement defending critics of......
March 28, 2008
Article: Fortunes from Foreigners
We encourage you to send us information you deem relevant, concerning full disclosure of large foreign gifts. We invite you to be attentive to this matter at both your current universities of contac......
March 24, 2008
Academic Questions: Breaching the Walls of Academe: The Purposes, Problems, and Prospects of Military History
John A. Lynn II
Military history as a subject generally summons us to imagine lessons "learned from the past," phrased in abstract universals; or the entertainment value of the History Channel ("the male......